Dr Aliandra Barlete

IASH Affiliate 2023-24
Dr Aliandra Barlete

Dr Aliandra Barlete is a Teaching Fellow at the Moray School of Education and Sport. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of Cambridge. Ali joined Moray House in May 2020, and is now a core staff member of the MSc Comparative Education and International Development (MSc CEID). In 2023, she was shortlisted as Supervisor of the Year in the University of Edinburgh’s Student Teaching Awards.

I’m currently interested in the analysis and teaching - as part of my role - of social theory in education. Since 2021 I run a project on ‘Southern Social theory and education’, as a way to inspire and challenge students to question the way they approach their research. Recently, I have been awarded a Principal Teaching Award grant to develop Social Theory Walks: The City of Edinburgh as a teaching space for social theory applied to Education’. The project aims to offer concepts-infused guided walks around Edinburgh as a way to illustrate how social theory becomes practice in the city’s past and present. 

My interest in social theory goes in hand with an empirical curiosity in the dynamics of change in education, particularly through policy-making. For the past 15 years I have researched and published on the dynamics of regional and inter-regional higher education frameworks in the developing world, with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.